My 2018 Summer Make-Up Favourites

The lover of all things avant-garde and glitter in me desperately wishes this post contained some terrifically exciting make-up, but I’m afraid, on this occasion, it’s all a bit prosaic because over the past few months doing my face has mostly been reduced to a five minute routine consisting of tidying and then quickly choosing a feature to up the ante on slightly.

And it’s had to be like that, to be quite frank – I’m often running late and never quite get round to finishing my make-up before I leave the house. I’ve now got these looks down now, so once I’ve done skin and brows, I can just do the rest on the tube or in a cab.

If you’re after recommendations of make-up, these are all brilliant and I have really put them through their paces. They wouldn’t have remained a permanent fixture in my make-up bag for so long unless I was truly impressed with their performance //

Base /SPF (ALWAYS) + L’Oreal Glow Pro Foundation. Annoyingly you can only buy it online, but as a shade indication, I use 205 mixed with 202 and somewhere in the middle is my perfect shade (I usually mix two or more foundations for the right shade and finish). The finish is, as the name suggests, glowing but not greasy. It has decent staying power and is unifying with moderate coverage, but you still need spot stuff – and freckles will show though (this I love). Where I need to cover redness, I use Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in shade 03. I powder on my t-zone and around my chin with Jurlique Rose Silk Finishing Powder.